I built only-cli: Turn any website into a compact CLI tailored for AI agents. Browse the web in hundreds of tokens, not tens of thousands.
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A new tool called "only-cli" has been developed to transform any website into a compact command-line interface (CLI) specifically designed for AI agents. This innovation allows AI agents to browse the web using hundreds of tokens, significantly reducing the token count compared to raw HTML, with a reported 142x fewer tokens across 15 real pages. Furthermore, "only-cli" is presented as a more cost-effective solution, being 23% cheaper than WebFetch and 35% cheaper than WebSearch for language document lookups, while maintaining or improving accuracy.
- 142x fewer tokens than raw HTML across 15 real pages: 10,936 against 1,552,491
- The only reader that returned real content on every page. Unblocks Reddit, LinkedIn, Yahoo Finance, and DuckDuckGo
- Half the cost of Claude Code's built-in WebSearch on Wikipedia lookups: $0.27 against $0.52 for five questions
- 23% cheaper than WebFetch and 35% cheaper than WebSearch on eleven language docs lookups, at equal or better accuracy.